Sentence examples for minute vote from inspiring English sources

Each adjournment vote is a "15 minute" vote, which in House speak often means members have 30 minutes or so.

Unfortunately this dishonesty that my opponent has continued to show this week is part of a pattern of deceit that goes all the way back to his betrayal of our district and his last minute vote switches on fast track authority for Bush and CAFTA.

"It's terrific to have this here," said Representative Virginia Foxx, Republican of North Carolina, who said that women had long been inconvenienced by having to race off the floor and race roughly the length of a football field during five minute votes to get to the restroom.

It's a 15-minute vote.

The 15-minute vote began at 6.50pm.

There were last-minute vote switchers among large institutions.

The name Sloane Ranger came out of a last-minute vote from the subeditors.

The outcome after a slightly more than 40-minute vote on the House floor left lawmakers almost speechless.

But even Mr. Hastert, now retired, held a scheduled 15-minute vote open for hours to browbeat colleagues into passing the Medicare prescription drug program in 2003.

The regulations should be extended, but the tax write-off is too costly for the city to be expanded in a last-minute vote.

Unhappy with the outcome, America had forced a last-minute vote on the final text, hoping to block the treaty altogether.